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At 79, Joel Cox is one of the last specimens of an endangered species.The editor is one of those many employees of Hollywood studios who, in the early 1960s, started at the bottom of the pyramid to gradually rise to the top.At the time, cinema schools almost did not exist, and the production houses assumed the responsibility of training and fearing their employees.Joel Cox started at the Warner Courrier Service, before becoming a joint assistant on several homemade productions.

It was in 1975 by seconding Ferris Webster, then the official clint eastwood editor, that Joel Cox worked, on Josey Wales, outlaws.The director had just moved the offices of Malpaso, his production house, from Universal to Warner.And he intrigued Hollywood.Because he was as much the star of the violent Inspector Harry (1971) as the author with the exacerbated sensitivity of Breezy (1973).Because he systematically called to vote republican in the presidential election and, at the same time, insisted for having more black actors in front of the camera or had as a regular musician on Josey Wales, outlaw, Jerry Fielding, formerlyPut in the index for his communist sympathies by Senator McCarthy.

"We went to Clint, in Carmel [city in the north of California of which he was a time mayor] for postproduction," recalls Joel Cox.Ferris Webster is not completely available, I worked on the assembly with Clint.Once our work is finished, he said to me: "I don't know what your plans are in life, but my project would be that you work on all the films I will make."We can say that we have made a few.The two men collaborated on more than thirty films in forty-six years of common professional life.Their latest, Cry Macho, where Eastwood plays a stretched star from the Rodeo, was released on November 10 in France.

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A job for life

Malpaso's premises are still located in those of Warner, in Burbank, not far from Hollywood.It is a bungalow, a small house, similar to so many others on the studio campus.An office where the director goes to helicopter from Carmel.This journey has become a habit over the decades.One example among many of the filmmaker's loyalty.Influenced by the master of the western John Ford - a frequent subject of discussion with his editor Joel Cox -, Clint Eastwood has become used to working regularly with the same actors and the same technicians.Until setting up a structure in which some have been used, sometimes for several decades.

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